Sometimes, you need to decide for yourself when it's time to pull up stakes and fold your cards.

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Among older Americans who pull up stakes, a "large majority" settle within 20 miles of their previous homes, according to a 2009 Boston College study.

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All these people had the get-up-and-go to pull up stakes and come here, a temperament that made them different from their friends and relatives who stayed home.

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They agreed that if a fellow was bald, older or had kids, that was OK. And yes, they were willing to pull up stakes for the right guy.

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But to pull up stakes and leave is a disaster for the region and for the ultimate security of the United States and for everything that we value, so that's really not an answer.

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Not that many clubs are likely to pull up the stakes anytime soon.

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As for us, we're hoping the company can pull something salvageable together from this mess and figure out a way to compete at a level of increasingly more difficult stakes.

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